Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

end There are now published daily through
out the world about 100 new books, or So,OOo
In the year.
A NEW ENGLAND writer, known to the
Detroit Free Press, says it ID popular error
to suppose that all m nisters sons are hanged
or sent TO state prison, and ne furnishes
list of forty-three who are respectable ana
law abiding men.
HIGH LICENSE or prohibition" says the
Hebrew Journal, lis the question OF the day
among the temperance reformers. But we
jews need concern ourselves but little ABOUT
the matter. for Jewish drunkaro Is one Vi TIC
rarest sights on EARTH"
BARTHoLDI will furnish to the American
Exhibition in London an immense painting
of the harbor of New York, accompanied
with panoramic views of the contiguous
| cities. There Will also be replica OF his Dig
| statue. Streeter Co., the London jewelers.,
will supply a case containing crystal rae
SMILES Of all the great diamonds OF the
world.
THE first meerschaum pipe was carved In
the early part of the thirty years war, and
wallensteln is said to have bought It, Now
the average number OF pipes turned out in
the centre OF pipe manufacture In Germany
is $4,000 real meerschaums, 100000 lmlta-
ton meerschaums, 500,000,0O0 wooden pipes
of great variety and many millions OF clay
bowls.
cleaned out an entire building is reported
from Celina, o. The bore called to see the
superintendent, and not finding him rang the
first bell that came handy. 1t happened TO oe
the fire gong. and the GOO well-trained pupils
solemnly arose and m arched out of the build.
ing. The book agent was subsequently hred
out himself.
A6-YEAR-oLD boy at Gait. CAL, has &C
| quired the habit of moking. He rolls his own
| tobacco in most artistic manner. The other
| night he went into his mothers room in the
| dark, and, picking up piece OF paper, used
| 1t as cigarette wrapper. After smoking Two
| thirds of it he went into the light ana MS
mother discovered that her precocious boy
had burnt $40 bill that had been left within
| his reach.
CLOSER ESTIMATES of the losses to working
men by the recent strikes in New York and
| New Jersey give the number Of strikers at
| 9,250, whose earnings from Jan. l to Feb. 10
| would have been 81. 405 coo. In addition there
| are $4,000 parsons IN the same section who
were reduced to idleness through lack of coal
| or the strike OF others, aud wb0se wages
| would have amounted 10 $3.50 900. This brings
| the loss in earnings to 81, 49,, GOO.
| IL Germany long troughs are placed at the
| caves of houses for the accommodation of
| sparrows in building their nests. When the
| young sparrows are Matched and the mother
| goes out to procure food for them. wire
| screens are placed over them, with inter-
| stlces large enough to permit the passage of
| food in to the younglIDgs, but too small to
| allow them to escape from the nests. AS
| soon as thev have grown large and plum
| they are killed, and they make very desira-
| bic article OF food.
BRAZIL has 5.5o7 miles of railroad. The
| Argentine Republic has 3 1894 miles, of which
nearly half is controlled by the State and the
| province Of Buenos Ayres, the rest being
| owned by private companies. Bolivia has
| tweDty-three miles Of railroad; Chill. 1877.
| OF the Chilisn railways, the State controls
| rather more than one-third. The railways of
| the United States OF Colombia are l40 miles in
| length, and are controlled by private COM
| panIes- Paraguay has forty-ive miles of
| railroad and Peru 1850, Uruguay go and
| Venezuela 372 miles.
The earthquake in the south of Europe was
not without humorous scenes and incidents.
| NJ. Pasteur, who was in the Riviera when the
shocks occurred, promptly left for Paris.
| These French scientific men are not so cour-
| ageous with the earth as with dogs" re-
| marked a German lady. One Eng ishman
| was seen In his night dress wearing a tall hat
| and having an umbrella. A lady said that
| her gardener rushed out in a state of nature
and was soon under fig tree. which was very
| paradise-like and appropriate, she thought.
| A Russian dashed out OF his bedroom almost
| naked, shrieking: II call heaven 10 witness
| am not an Atheist"
The Evening Post relates that a very valu-
able folio edition suddenly disappeared %
years ago from the Royal Library at Berlin
and during that time there appeared an =
nualy search warrants, but all in vain.
| Among the most eager in the search was DR..
| s.. who died recently. 1t has since been dis
covered that the doctor had, during these IS
| years, been using the folio to raise his seat.
| Another official OF the same establishment
| had written numberless essays, which still
| remained in manuscript, but which he was
| very DESTROYS should be published, leavin g
| dor 70 hat Of loot FArh On
| examination of these papers after his death il
| was discovered that they were written in q
| cipher of his own invention, of which he had
| forgotten to leave the key.
THE Russian papers report the discovery Of
| an ancient city on the banks of the Dnieper.
The group of ruins about five versts below the
village OF Bielozevsk has long been known,
but 1t is only lately that excavations have
| been made upon the site. Traces are now
| found of regularly constructed Streets water
| pipes, foundation walls of houses and rooms
| which are full of fragments of pottery, bones
| domestic utensils, remnants of statues and
| architectonic ornaments. Pieces of lead and
| coins have also been found with the inscrip-
| ton "Olbia," so that there is little doubt that
| it Is the site of the city OF that name. Only
| about tenth part OF the ruins have been ex
| pored as yet, but digging is to be recon-
| mencec IN the spring, when the so-called
| ''kurgane" burial hillOcksl will be explored
| from which great booty Is expected.
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| of rose known as the bride" is said to have
attained a notoriety and favor almost unpar-
| aleled in 50 short time before. A gardener
| in New Jersey Ia said to be the only really
| successful propagator of the rose, but OF her
| florists have taken 1t in hand aud few hand
| some ones have been observed. II has been
! 80 sought after by fashionable brides that it
| seems destined to become their favorite bou-
quet flower. 1t is large and perfect n form,
| the color faint tint of creamy white, and
| being somewhat like the we'll known Cook"
| rose in coior-perhaps a triie more creamy.
| 1t has this distinguishing feature: that the
| outside petals ave tinged on their upper half
| with faint blush of pink. 1t is not \ flower
| of the spring." being bloom of forced winter
| growth but still there is demand for them
| by escorts Of theatre goers even at S. per
| dozen.
THE heirs-at-law of the late Daniel Nc
Donald, of Virginia, are said to have q good
claim 20 most OF the land upon which the city
of Louisville, KY, is built. The land in ques-
ton. number OF years ago, escheated to the
commonwealth of Kentucky, but it is claimed
| that as an escheat is only good in case of the
| default OF heirs. that amounts to nothing: in
! deed is AN advantage to the Claimanta